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History Of Memphis Garage Rock: The 90'S CD
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History of Memphis Garage Rock: The 90's bashes out a timeline of the city's recent rock & roll history. As recounted by the Shangri-La Projects label and local citizen Ross Johnson, the story of the '90s Memphis underground begins and ends with three guys, Jeff Evans, Jack Yarber, and Greg Cartwright (aka Jack Oblivion and Greg Oblivion). They figure heavily in the lineups of the bands appearing here, from the Gibson Bros.' happily raw cover of Rex Garvin's "Emulsified," to all The Oblivions-named stuff, to the Compulsive Gamblers' "Bad Taste," which, with its delightfully warbling vocals and whizzing organ runs is a pretty good primer of the funky white-man-sound of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. (Spencer once played with the Gibson Bros.). "Honey, I'm Too Old" is an old, surprisingly heartfelt Sympathy for the Record Industry side of Jack Oblivion's, while the Cool Jerks' "For a Little While" lurches and roars with boozy, glammy ardor. A cool Dick Dale-influenced instrumental from Impala offers a brief respite from all the swaggerin' and bloozy punk bluster, before Lorette Velvette's one-note electro boogie plunges you right back in it with the '60s update barn dance come-on of "Don't Crowd Your Mind." The Neckbones ("Eyeful") turn everything to 12 and pour beer on the mic, while the Satyrs' "Johnny Rebel" harbors a similar disrespect for eardrums. The ambitiously-named King Louie the 69th & the Harahan Crack Combo closes out the comp with the naughty trash overdrive of "Jailbait." This much is true: it isn't robbing liquor stores that knocked this King off his throne. In the end, History of Memphis Garage Rock is really more like a box of greasy Polaroids than a historical timeline. But age hasn't faded those shots, and it doesn't lessen the immediacy of these rave-ups. ~ Johnny Loftus
Photographers: Bob Kondrack; Trey Harrison; Jim Cole ; Daniel Ball; Jim Higgins.
Personnel: Jack Yarber (vocals, guitar, saxophone); Jackie "O" , Dave Boyer, Don Howland, Melissa Dunn, Trey Harrison, Tyler Keith, Jason Paxton, Eric Friedl, Mark Harrison, Lorette Velvette, Jeffrey Evans, Michael Hurtt (vocals, guitar); Forrest Hewes, King Louie (vocals, drums); Rob Lexander (vocals); Greg Oblivian (guitar, toy piano); Jack "Happy Jack" Taylor (guitar, organ); Greg Cartwright (guitar, drums); James Arthur , Kristof Hahn, Jeff Green, Darin Lin Wood, John Stivers, Alicja Trout (guitar); Jimmy Enck (saxophone); John West, Alex Greene (piano); Mr. Quintron (organ); Scott Bomar (Farfisa); King Louie Bankston, Stephanie Lang, Ellen Hoover, Rodney Thomas, Rebecca Carter, Bob Fordyce, Jeff Goggans, Kurt Ruleman (drums); Sue Easley, Davis McCain (background vocals).
Liner Note Author: Ross M. "Flamin R" Johnson.
Entertainment Weekly (10/17/03, p.83) - "...With [this release] comes the revelation that New York, Detroit, and Columbus, Ohio, aren't the only towns where the big, boss, dirty, sound thrives. We bet you'll want seconds." - Rating: B+
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